Bio Update 2009
Hawley Hussey is a writer, performer, visual artist and the Director
of BRIC Contemporary Art Education in Brooklyn. Her work with
artist’s and public schools is gaining tremendous reputation city
and state wide for it's innovative partnership vision, it's site specific
residency model and the pursuit of inspirational community building
through an art centered curriculum.
Hawley is a well-known Coney Island personality who is respected by
Winter bathers up and down the boardwalk for her bravado and ability
to BEAR UP in the freezing temps! She was featured on Fox News
describing the last snow storm swim of the season as “feeling like
icy razors…and then it’s cool”. She flatly stated: “I don’t know what’s
wrong with me!” Hawley has performed her WORLD FAMOUS CONEY
ISLAND BREAK-UP LETTERS at such infamous locations as The
Coney Island Museum, The KGB Bar, The NUYORICAN Poets cafe
and the Bowery Poetry Club. Her letters were produced on a CD
of NY Poets: Beauty Keeps Laying It's Sharp Knife Against Me. Her
artist books and paintings are collected internationally. Hawley was
included in the recently released film "Bohemia: The Life of A New
York Poet".
2008
Hawley Hussey is a writer, performer, visual artist and the Director
of Education at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn. Her work with
contemporary artists and public schools is gaining tremendous
reputation city and state wide for it's innovative partnership vision,
it's site specific residency model and the pursuit of inspirational
planning and assessment of the whole process. Hawley has performed
her WORLD FAMOUS CONEY ISLAND BREAK-UP LETTERS at such
infamous locations as The Coney Island Museum, The KGB Bar, The
NUYORICAN Poets cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club. Her letters
were recently produced on a CD of NY Poets: Beauty Keeps Laying
It's Sharp Knife Aginst Me. Her artist books and paintings are collected
internationally. Most recently her wood-cut book THE DEVIL and ME
was collected by the Smithsonian.
2005
Hawley Hussey is a Brooklyn artist with California plates.
For nostalgic reasons she just won't let these plates go
although she insists her watch is now set those sad three
hours ahead of the coast. For many years Hawley has brought
people and distances together with collaboration and her 1985
Honda Civic DX with the dashboard alter (230,000 miles and
counting).
Distance Made Good will travel to the Fading Ad Gallery
in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY in 2005 and include a a gathering
of writers and performers and a small press publication.
More long weekends in LA will be required to secure Prague,
Oslo and that double wide trailer in Sky Valley.